癲

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See also: 癫
癲 U+7672, 癲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7672
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 癳 →

Translingual

Japanese 癲
Simplified 癫
Traditional 癲

Han character

癲 (Kangxi radical 104, 疒+19, 24 strokes, cangjie input 大十金金 (KJCC), four-corner 00186, composition ⿸疒顛(GHTV) or ⿸疒顚(JK))

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 783, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 22643
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1192, character 35
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2705, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+7672

Chinese

trad. 癲
simp. 癫
2nd round simp. 𱂪
alternative forms 瘨
顛／颠
⿰⿳十且八页 1981 2nd round simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (真) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
寘 *tjels
䡩 *kʰriːn
黰 *ʔriːn, *ʔljinʔ
顛 *tiːn, *tʰiːns
滇 *tiːn, *tʰiːns, *diːn
齻 *tiːn
槙 *tiːn, *tjinʔ
瘨 *tiːn
傎 *tiːn
蹎 *tiːn
厧 *tiːn
巔 *tiːn
癲 *tiːn
瑱 *tʰiːns, *tins
填 *diːn, *diːns, *tin, *tins
窴 *diːn, *diːns
闐 *diːn, *diːns
磌 *diːn, *tjin
鷏 *diːn
嗔 *diːn, *tʰjin
搷 *diːn
鎮 *tin, *tins
縝 *tʰin, *ʔljinʔ, *tʰjin
真 *ʔljin
禛 *tjin
稹 *ʔljin, *ʔljinʔ
蒖 *tjin
鬒 *ʔljinʔ
瞋 *tʰjin
謓 *tʰjin
慎 *djins

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *tiːn) : semantic 疒 (“illness”) + phonetic 顛 (OC *tiːn, *tʰiːns).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • diêng1 - Chaozhou;
  • diang1 - Shantou.
Rime
Character 癲
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5)
Final (韻) 先 (85)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 都年切
Baxter ten
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ten/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ten/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tɛn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/tɛn/
Li
Rong 		/ten/
Wang
Li 		/tien/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tien/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		diān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		din1
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 癲
Reading # 1/1
No. 17047
Phonetic
component 		眞
Rime
group 		眞
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		顚
Old
Chinese 		/*tiːn/
Notes 同瘨見難經

Definitions

癲

  1. crazy; nuts; mad
    癲狗病／癫狗病 [Cantonese]  ―  din1 gau2 beng6   ―  rabies (lit. mad dog sickness)
  2. (Cantonese) to be mad; to display insane behavior

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 瘋 (“mad; crazy; insane”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 痴, 狂, 癲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 瘋, 狂, 瘋癲, 瘋狂
Mandarin Beijing 瘋
Taiwan 瘋
Yantai (Muping) 痴
Luoyang 瘋
Xi'an 瘋
Ürümqi 瘋
Guiyang 瘋
Liuzhou 癲
Yangzhou 瘋
Singapore 神經病, 有毛病
Cantonese Guangzhou 癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, short
Hong Kong 癲, 黐線, 黐筋, 黐孖筋, 黐膠花, short, 黐總掣, 黐大掣
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 癲, 黐線
Penang (Guangfu) 癲, 黐線
Singapore (Guangfu) 癲, 黐線
Gan Nanchang 瘋
Hakka Meixian 癲
Eastern Min Fuzhou 癲
Southern Min Xiamen 痟
Quanzhou 痟
Yongchun 痟
Zhangzhou 痟, 魔
Zhao'an 痟
Tainan 痟
Penang (Hokkien) 痟
Singapore (Hokkien) 痟
Manila (Hokkien) 痟
Chaozhou 痟
Shantou 痟
Shantou (Chenghai) 痟
Shantou (Chaoyang) 痟
Jieyang 痟
Haifeng 癲
Singapore (Teochew) 痟
Leizhou 痟神
Wenchang 發痟
Singapore (Hainanese) 發痟
Wu Shanghai 痴
Shanghai (Chongming) 痴
Danyang 瘋
Hangzhou 瘋
Wenzhou 癲
Jinhua 癲
Xiang Loudi 瘋

See also

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

癲

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. to collapse due to a mental disorder or a nervous disorder
  2. epilepsy

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

癲 • (jeon) (hangeul 전, revised jeon, McCune–Reischauer chŏn, Yale cen)

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